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“Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

“Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.”

Robert Schumann (1810–1856) German composer, aesthete and influential music critic

“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World

“But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”

Jon Krakauer (1954) American outdoors writer and journalist

“The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.”

Boyd K. Packer (1924–2015) American Mormon leader

“Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.”

Laurens van der Post (1906–1996) South African writer

“Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

“We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.”

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher

“It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.”

Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist

“She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

“Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.”

William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

“In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats”

Roberto Bolaño book The Savage Detectives